Heliosporites
No picture of Heliosporites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Heliosporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SelaginellaceaePBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
- Environment
- freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Lycopodiophyta
Time the record covers
At least 275 million years on record.
The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
6 occurrences of Heliosporites on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
6 occurrencesThese are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
- Dinosaur Park Formation · Belly River Group2
- Oldman Formation · Belly River Group1
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The named rock units Heliosporites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Heliosporites and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Heliosporites and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
133 taxa- Aquilapollenites3 sites
- Aquilapollenites quadrilobus3 sites
- Cyathidites minor3 sites
- Retitriletes3 sites
- Taxodiaceaepollenites3 sites
- Vitreisporites pallidus3 sites
- Aequitriradites2 sites
- Alisporites bilateralis2 sites
- Beaupreaidites2 sites
- Cedripites cretaceus2 sites
- Classopollis2 sites
- Cranwellia2 sites
- Cyathidites australis2 sites
- Cycadopites nitidus2 sites
- Equisetosporites multicostatus2 sites
- Foraminisporis2 sites
- Gleicheniidites senonicus2 sites
- Grewipollenites canadensis2 sites
- Hadrosauridae2 sites
- Laevigatosporites ovatus2 sites
- Leptolepidites verrucatus2 sites
- Liliacidites2 sites
- Parvisaccites radiatus2 sites
- Penetetrapites mollis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Heliosporites, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
5 references- Palynology of Dinosaur Provincial Park (Campanian) Alberta2
- A new centrosaurine from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada, and the evolution of parietal ornamentation in horned dinosaurs1
- Biostratigraphic correlation, paleoenvironment stress, and subrosion pipe collapse: Dutch Rhaetian shales uncover their secrets1
- A Rhaeto-Liassic flora from Airel, northern France.1
- Devonian Megaspores from the Wyboston Borehole, Bedfordshire, England1
Each of the 6 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Heliosporites was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Heliosporites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heliosporites was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSelaginellaceae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Archangelsky and Gamerro 1966